Monday, December 15, 2003

BPEL Presentations Paul Brown put out a great presentation last week on BPEL which reminded me that there is a growing number of public presentations on BPEL squirrelled away all over the Internet, each with different takes on what BPEL is, how best to understand it and where its ultimate value lies.  Despite the Powerpoint is bad, really really bad, particularly for kids (and one could infer, Oracle product managers) thread that is in the papers these days (the best presentations always seem to be the ones by folks who can speak/whiteboard extemporaneously on topics but unfortunately those don't lend themselves to blog entries...), Powerpoint frequently brings a crystalization/conceptualization/visualization that can help many folks grasp technical topics better than simply reading specifications/articles/tutorials. Here is a cut at some of the BPEL presentation links I am aware of: Abstract Processes in BPEL - Microsoft - Tony Andrews BPEL for Programmers and Architects - Fivesight - Paul Brown Business Processes for Web Services - IBM, Marc Colan BPEL 101 Tutorial - Collaxa Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) -  Pierre-Alain Doffoel, Tinghe Wang OASIS WS-BPEL in Brief - Peter Furniss, Choreology Business Process Execution Language 1.1 - IBM - Francisco Curbera, Rania Khalaf, Frank Leymann,  UML Modelling of Automated Business Processes with a Mapping to BPEL4WS - IBM - Tracy Gardner BPEL: Business Processes with Web Services - Oracle - me! Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) - GlobusWORLD - Nirmal Mukhi, Steve Tuecke An Overview of Web Services Orchestration Standards - HP - Chris Peltz Introduction to BPEL - IBM - Deiter Roller Web Services and Business Process Automation - Microsoft - Christof Sprenger BPEL Goals and Nuances - Microsoft - Satish Thatte Over the next year, many of these will yield more and more sophisticated product stories under which the core BPEL constructs will lie.  comment [] 11:13:31 PM